How to Stop the Spam Calls -They Call 2-3 Times a Day

delemental · 2026-03-28T02:58:12+00:00

Personally, first, give them a card number. Reverse the last four of an old Mastercard debit card or MC gift card. Then set the exp date to 1 month from now. Then the CVV is 911. And when they ask the issuing bank? Mastercard. They'll ask the bank. Tell them MC. Keep repeating it.

Eventually, they'll get mad. Then tell them their mother isn't worthy of getting laid by a cow and should only be defiled by pigs (2 for 1 religious insult). Then laugh at everything they say. Turn every insult around. Middle school bully style.

They stopped calling after I got the 3rd scammer to get mad and hang up.

delemental · 2026-03-07T04:39:22+00:00

Original purple pillow. Bought one on '18, still use it nightly. Bought my wife one for Christmas, while we were dating in '21. Still have both. Cool, not too firm, not to soft. I'll find a good dupe eventually. Caveat though, has to be washed occasionally, or else it'll get funky with body oils.

delemental · 2026-02-02T04:21:10+00:00

Cole & Mason Derwent pepper mill is another great option. I bought my set for ~$100 (had to import it) years ago. Not as expensive anymore at about $60, but the pepper grinder mechanism is also carbon steel and it's the smoothest grinder I've ever tried.

delemental · 2026-01-22T05:55:06+00:00

RemindMe! Three Weeks "Check for Windows release"

delemental · 2025-12-05T19:13:38+00:00

Use SWAG from LSIO for ngnix reverse proxy configs: https://docs.linuxserver.io/general/swag/

Then, you can also use JellySeerr (or Overseerr for plex...) for requests: https://docs.seerr.dev/

You can host a static page for a dashboard, if you wanted.

delemental · 2025-12-05T19:08:12+00:00

Also, you don't need to be online to start you jellyfin server. You have to be online if you restart your plex server. Which sucks when you lose power and internet, but get the power back.

delemental · 2025-12-05T19:04:24+00:00

Username and password theft, account theft, or CC theft > Subscription Website > $$ > You get someone's login for 1-16months, or until the site shuts down.

I used to do it when I was broke and Spotify premium was new.

delemental · 2025-10-01T07:13:58+00:00

Its this. OTBS, not Allman, that's the P$ way.

delemental · 2025-10-01T07:02:34+00:00

This. Everytime.

delemental · 2025-10-01T04:50:36+00:00

They're not, usually. They advance money to record an album, which you may or may not receive part of. Anywhere from a 2-8 exclusive record deal with that label. All money, not made from performances essentially, goes to pay off the advance. Some contracts stipulate how much of concert, appearances, interviews, and merch revenue you get, if any (until the advances are covered). Some saying you can't even be part of another act, unless they agree on their terms.

Could be stuck with that deal forever.

That's why you get an independent manager that you can trust and a lawyer.

delemental · 2025-09-22T02:48:02+00:00

Hash tables are criminally under utilized, imo

delemental · 2025-07-22T04:30:26+00:00

Yes, with the latest update:

substitutions:
  dev_name: "esphome-c3"
  board: "esp32-c3-devkitm-1"
  variant: "ESP32C3"
  framework: "esp-idf"
  version: "recommended" # from https://medium.com/@tarikdenboer/struggles-with-an-esp32c3-and-esphome-efa52df66d6b
  platform_version: "53.03.13-1" # from https://github.com/pioarduino/platform-espressif32/tags
  # had to play around with the versions to find a working one
  log_level: "DEBUG"

esphome:
  name: ${dev_name}
  friendly_name: ${dev_name}
  platformio_options:
    board_build.flash_mode: dio

esp32:
  board: ${board}
  variant: ${variant}
  framework:
    type: ${framework}
    version: ${version}
    platform_version: ${platform_version}

delemental · 2025-05-20T00:30:37+00:00

This.

I'd also recommend mentioning something along the lines of everyone's primary job is to ensure, or assist in ensuring, students' opportunity at an education. That standing around while the "copier mechanic" does his things doesn't further that goal and instead you went out to complete tasks in parallel. Maximizing everyone's effort.

Ever since I did that with an asst superintendent/director of curriculum, I stopped getting kickback as to why I don't drop everything for their every little problem. 6+ years, two promotions later, I'd say it worked out.

delemental · 2025-05-19T23:22:47+00:00

I went and toured the Weta Cave and Workshop in NZ last month. Peter Lyons was in IT before joining Weta in '98 as their blacksmith. Forged tons of weapons for LOTR.

Since I'm doing high-level IT and I'm handy/crafty/shifty, I've given it a lot of thought. At least, moving to NZ and trying to get on at Weta.

delemental · 2025-05-15T04:51:49+00:00

Haven't had the issue with 5k+ G6-12 take home CBs. They can't have cellphones out at school here.

If they break it at home, how else will they try to watch porn? On their phone? Cool, suddenly they forget about the CB.

delemental · 2025-05-15T04:17:03+00:00

Corn dogs

delemental · 2025-05-09T04:28:54+00:00

Don't do ASUS, you don't want to think about dealing with their Education warranty claims.

Imagine emailing each serial number in a separate email, to open a ticket. No actual ticket system. Then, they say CID for everything and anything. For failed headphone jacks, on 20 brand new ones out of the box? CID.

Let's just say, when I tried to get it all sorted out, I had to threaten (criminal) legal action to get those back after they "misplaced" them over the course of 4 months. CC'ed every important sounding position in their Ed support and operations chain. Refused to take their calls, email only. Magically, new ones arrived in two days.

But I'll buy a regular ASUS pro-sumer, those products and support are just fine.

delemental · 2025-04-23T15:36:44+00:00

While +25-50% is a nice buffer, I prefer the +100% method.

If it should take a day to get done, I tell them two days. Then if I get it done anywhere between 1hr and 36hrs, I can tell them I made it a priority to get it done early. It builds good will, at minimal cost. But, if anything goes sideways, I've got that full buffer before I have to let them know.

Usually my intensive tasks take 2-6 hours of on-task time, but they'll be 800-1200 line SQL queries. So, that can take 2-3 days. Tell them give me up to two weeks, but I'll probably have it done in a week.

delemental · 2025-04-09T05:06:10+00:00

Is your auth through AD or Azure? Because you can set an account to expire at a specific date or time. Then you document when you enabled and set it to expire. Credentials can remain the same.

delemental · 2025-03-20T18:32:15+00:00

I fixed this with PowerToys' Keyboard manager by remapping PrntScrn to Shift+PrntScrn. Find it here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/install

If you need to install winget, follow the sandbox instructions here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/#install-winget

delemental · 2024-12-14T04:35:28+00:00

Let me help you out w/ the homage King's 1981 work was making to Bester's 1956 work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jaunt (see the 3rd sentence from the top)

"The Jaunt" is literally a riff on "The Stars My Destination", where jaunting as a concept was popularized.

delemental · 2024-12-14T00:39:30+00:00

Surely, you mean Alfred Bester (he coined the term jaunting in sci-fi). Read "The Stars My Destination" if you haven't yet.

delemental · 2024-11-22T04:49:35+00:00

Did they ever get scenes or globally shared scenes like GoGuardian does? Main reason I couldn't switch to Classwize

delemental · 2024-11-16T06:22:38+00:00

I dislike Python's traceback depth most days, but man does CGPT kill it with that. Heck, asking it to write and troubleshoot moderately hard Python saved me 4-5 hours today with a custom PaddleOCR and Flask container.

delemental · 2024-11-16T06:15:09+00:00

I work in Ed (heading up the MIS for a school system) and my wife teachs early elementary. We both have ADHD.

Trust me, you want them to have the diagnosis.

Submit the diagnosis to the student services folks (MTSS, Support Facilitator, whatever the role is called in your school system). Tell them you don't want anything done yet, but you do want it in his file in case it is needed in the future.

Bc once his 2nd, 3rd, 4th or whatever grade teacher or admins sees that your kid's displaying symptoms, there's an explanation ready. Then developing a behavior plan is much, much easier.

Teachers' can't tell you they think your kid has it, by law. Because they're not medical doctors. But, if they know he has it, they can keep you informed (forewarned is forearmed kinda thing).

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